A CONVICTED racist shouted racial abuse at an African man before smashing his door with a piece of piping, a court heard this week.

Guildford Crown Court was told that Perry Smith of Rye Close, Park Barn, is alleged to have yelled “you black nigger, what are you doing, get out of here” at the victim, who is from Ghana.

However Mr Smith, 39, who denies the charges, told the court that his stepson, Nathan Smith, admitted the attack.

Prosecutor Richard Bendall, said Mr Smith, a golf course manager, was holding a three-foot blue plastic pipe when he approached the victim at around 10.45pm on August 13 last year. The victim, who lived at Broadacres, Guildford, with his family, told the jury he was frightened as he saw the man holding a long stick. “He was coming towards me. I ran to the front door and shouted for my wife and she opened the door for me,” he said.

He said that once the door was closed they heard a blow, which shattered one of the door’s glass panes. The court was told that after the first attack Mr Smith ran off and did not return for another 10 or 15 minutes. The victim, who works for the NHS, said his family watched Mr Smith return to the house from an upstairs room and then heard strikes to the door again.

“In his attempt to get through the door, to get to the security chain, the offender cut himself,” Mr Bendall said.

The court was told the victim’s family, who had called the police, was shouting for help and it is believed that at this point Mr Smith fled the scene.

The victim described the man as “tall and stout” and said he was wearing a T-shirt with blue stripes and jeans.

Mr Bendall told the jury that a blood sample provided by Mr Smith was found to match a blood sample taken from the door of the property that had been attacked. He added Mr Smith’s DNA blood sample also matched a sample taken from the piece of piping. However, the court was told that after the incident the victim was unable to pick Mr Smith during an identification procedure.

Mr Smith said it was during an evening in the Stoughton Royal British Legion Club that his stepson admitted his guilt.

He told the court that Nathan said to him “you do know who did it, don’t you?”

The golf course manager said he had his suspicions and then asked his stepson if he had done it. He replied “yes”.

But when asked by Mr Bendall if anyone had heard the conversation, he replied: “Nobody said anything, so I do not know.”

Mr Smith said that on August 13 last year, he had a fight with his stepson, in which he used a piece of piping, after they left the Woodbridge Hill Club.

Mr Smith said that on that day he was wearing a blue shirt and dark trousers as he had been at a wedding reception.

Club steward Patrick Burns who had followed the pair, said he saw Nathan “grabbing the pipe off him (Mr Smith)” and walk towards Broadacres.

Forensic biologist Lyndsey Edwards said it was possible to transfer some spots of blood during fights.